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Explorations in Mathematical Physics The Concepts Behind an Elegant Language /

Have you ever wondered why the language of modern physics centres on geometry? Or how quantum operators and Dirac brackets work? What a convolution really is? What tensors are all about? Or what field theory and lagrangians are, and why gravity is described as curvature? This book takes you on a tou...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Koks, Don (Auteur)
Collectivité auteur: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
Édition:1st ed. 2006.
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Accès en ligne:Texto Completo
Table des matières:
  • The Language of Physics
  • A Trip Down Linear Lane
  • The Natural Language of Random Processes
  • A Roundabout Route to Geometric Algebra
  • Special Relativity and the Lorentz Transform
  • Four-Vectors and the Road to Tensors
  • Accelerated Frames: Onward to the Principle of Covariance
  • The Elegance and Power of Tensor Notation
  • Curvature and Differential Geometry
  • Variational Calculus and Field Theory
  • The Green Function Approach to Solving Field Equations
  • Airliners, Black Holes, and Cosmology: The ABC of General Relativity.